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Frank Mucci

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:Illinois
Support
Labor Organizing
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Biography

Frank Mucci was a militant young miner and "red" alderman of Taylor Springs, one of fourteen Progressive Miners of America defendants charged under Illinois's sedition law with "treason" at Hillsboro in 1934, with bail set at some half a million dollars.

Case

Charges: Charged with treason under Illinois's sedition law at Hillsboro.
Arrested: 1934
Sentence: Held under heavy bail; defended by the ILD.
Convicted: Held on the treason charge, 1934